The new lighting is on the inbound (heading toward Cleveland Park, etc.) side of the station.

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The new LED trackbed lighting is on the right (inbound Red Line) side of the photo. The older lights are on the left.

WMATA expects to complete the work on the outbound side of Van Ness station by January 26th.

“All of Metro’s 48 underground stations will be upgraded to LED systems over the next 30 months,” says WMATA in the press release. So far, work has been completed at nearly a third of them, and the lighting is 3 to 9 times brighter at each one.

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